Off-balance-sheet debt, through an SPV or a joint venture tied to assets like chips or real estate, is becoming the go-to for AI data center deals, bankers say. Morgan Stanley estimates that tech firms and others will need as much as $800 billion from private credit in deals tied to specific assets, including in SPV format, by 2028.
Across the AI ecosystem, “around $1.5 trillion of external financing is needed, and issuers are going to tap a broad range of financing sources,” said Anish Shah, Morgan Stanley’s global head of debt capital markets.
